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• 9 • Introduction: "Horror and the Hearth of Darkness" (House Shudders) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• 13 • The House and the Brain • (1899) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859)
• 41 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 58 • The Judge's House • (1891) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 77 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 98 • The Cat Jumps • (1929) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 108 • The Thing in the Cellar • (1932) • short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
• 116 • Lizzie Borden Took an Axe... • (1946) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 129 • The Moon of Montezuma • (1952) • novelette by Cornell Woolrich
• 159 • The House in Bel Aire • (1961) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 165 • The School Friend • (1964) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 191 • One of the Dead • (1964) • novelette by William Wood (II)
• 220 • The Boogeyman • (1973) • short story by Stephen King
• 233 • Dark Winner • (1976) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 238 • No Hiding Place • (1977) • novelette by Jack L. Chalker
• 270 • Teeth Marks • (1979) • short story by Edward Bryant
• 287 • The Tearing of Greymare House • (1983) • novelette by Michael Reaves [as by J. Michael Reaves]
• 322 • The Children, They Laugh So Sweetly • (1985) • short story by Charles L. Grant